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From: hhm@ihlpy.att.com (Herschel H Mayo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Marines build log cabin in desert?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 03:32:21 GMT
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From: hhm@ihlpy.att.com (Herschel H Mayo)

> In the NY Times of Tuesday (Jan. 15) there is a photo of three
> U.S. soldiers in the Saudi desert building a square enclosure
> about twenty feet on a side. It is made of what appear to be
> sections of telephone poles laid down as if building a log
> expected way with notches, etc. In fact one log sticks out
> longer than the rest and has what appear to be a couple of
> sandbags stuffed under it. The adjacent wall has what seems

> I can't put my finger on it. Can somebody put this into
> a rational, modern warfare context?
 
One possibility may be that it is a "Quaker Gun". Maybe it was necessary
to fool the Iraqis in order to make them think that we had more weapons
than we really did in the early deployment of troops to Saudi
Arabia.
                                               Larry Mayo